Ever since World War I, Germany was not on a friendly terms with Russia. Germany hated the Soviet Union and despised communists. This very hate for communism was what allowed Hitler to promote his Enabling Act providing unlimited power and creating a totalitarian state. Germany had previously suffered from various terrorist attacks and the infamous alleged communist attack on the Reichstag building. While the true motivations and attackers remain debatable, this attack on the Reichstag building caused Germany (and Hitler) to take action against the communist.
Hitler's main war aim was to create "lebensraum" or in other words living space for the expansion of Germany. The need for "lebensraum" was described by him in his book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle)published in the 1920's. Hitler believed that the place for this expansion was to the East of Germany. For this reason he invaded Poland in 1939. The attack on Poland was a clear sign of aggression, Britain and France could no longer ignore Germany and declared war against Germany. Germany with it's new tactic Blitzkrieg outmatched that of France and Britain's. Soon France was defeated and Britain was forced back to the other side of the English Channel. Much of Western Europe was now under control of Nazi Germany and it was time to take the West.
Germany had a Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union. This gave Stalin a sense of security. Hitler knowing that the peace between Russia and Germany would be difficult to maintain. Soon,Hitler launched operation Barbarossa for the following reasons.
*Hitler have always hated the Soviet Russia because of their communist ideology.
*Hitler believed the Russian population were inferior and therefore should be exterminated.
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...US mobilized 16.4 million men and women.
The US and British empire forces dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs in nazi Europe. The Red Army fired about 10 million tons of ammunition in the war.
The Soviets lost 90.000 combat aircraft, the US made 200.000 (45% of the American production).
The Soviets lost 218 thousand artillery pieces, the US produced 512 thousand guns between 1941 and 1944.
In the eastern front, the Germans lost 5.4 million men between 1941 and 1944, in the western front, in 1944, they lost 400.000 men. For the same period (06/1944-12/1944), the Soviets inflicted 1.25 million casualties on the germans.” quoted Guaporense
As seen from the statistics above, the Soviet contributed tons toward the second World War. Germany was doomed from the start but without the Soviet intervention, the allies would have taken a lot longer to defeat Germany.
Japan killed millions in World War II. We killed under 100,000 in the dropping of the bombs. “More than 46 million people died in World War II. The Japanese, alone, may have killed 17 million. So why have so many focused so intently on the 80,000 who died at Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945?”(Benson).
...h Americans used planes and helicopters to deploy sustained heavy bombardment over Vietnam. During this one operation there were more bombs dropped than in the entire WW2 – 864,000 tonnes in total.
...se the main reason for the invasion of the Soviet Union was to weaken and demoralize the British. Hitler would have control of the Middle East and the rest of the British Empire. If the United States wanted to join the war, it would be very hard for them to have a place to launch an attack and would basically be forced to have peace with Hitler. With these events taking place in the west, the war would end early and Hitler would come out on top. This would not be the end to all conflicts because once Hitler wanted to start invading the east; he would run into more problems.
Did you know that over 830,000 Germans died during Operation Barbarossa? Operation Barbarossa was the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union enacted by Hitler and carried out by Nazi troops. But the Nazis were not the only ones who suffered colossal losses. The soviets had over 4,000,000 military casualties, but somehow, the U.S.S.R. defeated the Germans and was able to shove them out of their land. This defeat definitely had a major effect on WWII’s outcome due to the massive Nazi force that was allotted to Operation Barbarossa and their failure to take command of the U.S.S.R. The key points of Operation Barbarossa were who planned it, why they planned it, the events that had major effects on the war, and Germany’s failure.
First Germany lost lots of land bordering Poland, France, and Denmark. East Prussia was still a part of Germany, but was like an island, disconnected from the homeland. This weakened Germany very much, having land be stripped from her. In Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf he says, “No nation can remove the hand from it’s throat except by the sword” (Document A). Hitler is saying in order to stop the unfair treatment, war is inevitable. He said this to help him come to power. He inspired people to not get pushed around by other countries with the Versailles Treaty. Hitler promised redemption and glory if he was put to
World War Two began on the 3rd of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, however Adolf Hitler had made a number of actions before this date that are directly responsible for the outbreak of what is bloodiest war in human history. Although there were a number of causes of World War Two, Hitler’s actions were the most important. Hitler’s actions can be broken down into three different points. Firstly, Hitler’s military actions such as the rearmament of Germany and the German assistance in the Spanish Civil War were major causes of the war. Secondly, Hitler’s breaking of The Munich Agreement and finally, Hitler’s invasion of Poland, which many historians believe to be the main trigger for The Second World War. Many of Hitler’s actions can be traced back to being a direct cause of World War Two.
3. Once the war began, Germany developed a clear set of aims, already discussed before the war, to gain large territorial gains in central and eastern Europe, very similar to Hitler’s later craving for Lebensraum (‘living space’) in eastern Europe
approximately 11 million people were killed in the war). These made the World War 2 the
Support for the Nazi party was due to the growing belief that it was a
Hitler had long been obsessed with attacking and controlling France. After their defeat in World War I, the German people, government, and military were humiliated by the enormous post war sanctions leveraged against them from the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler wanted to defeat and humiliate the French people in the same way that his country had to. For him, revenge was necessary. The German plan was to swing into France using a new tactic known as Blitzkrieg or “Lightning War”.
..., let him get away with it! Later on, once Hitler had more power and control over things, he decided to invade Poland in search of more Jews, but luckily France and Britain had heard of Hitler’s rampage and decided to put an end to it by waging war on Germany two days after the invasion started. This little war started a large-scale world war that would from then on known as the largest armed conflict between countries in history.
air combat losses were split almost evenly between aerial combat (46%) and air defenses (54%). By the Korean and Vietnam wars however, combat losses due to enemy air defenses had risen to approximately 90 %”( Bolkom, 2004). During the Vietnam War, the enemy air defense outshined that of the U.S. Army. Soviet Union forces helped in both equipment and workers. Surface to air missile sites, teaching air defense tactics and strategy to Vietnamese soldiers, and funding played a large factor in the capabilities they
World War II happened for many reasons,which there is most likely no way anyone could have stopped it from eventually happening. By using appeasement in the beginning,were just giving Hitler exactly what he wanted which was not good at all.But by Collective Security, Europe finally did what was needed to be done to gain back the power that they had just given away.Collective Security is more effective response to aggression because it doesn't let the aggressor get what he wants and to gain too much power over everyone.
The road to World War II was built by several different causes. Under Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Germany had desire to expand and dominate over most of Europe. This expansionism could be seen in Germany’s allies too. Japan set its eyes on China, and Italy set its eyes on Northern Africa. Hitler also ignored many of the agreements under the Treaty of Versailles, and begun breaking the treaty more and more up until the start of World War II. Unfortunately he couldn’t be stopped, a policy of “Appeasement” from the League of Nations allowed Germany to build an army and begin the annexation of its European neighbors. This policy of appeasement was accompany by the belief that collective security would pull through. If all the nations banded together and declared collective security, no other country would dare attack. Unfortunately when Germany and her allies did attack, collective security proved useless. Ultimately the policies of appeasement, the belief that collective security would work, and the over aggression of the Axis forces would lead to the start of World War II.
He believed that the Germans were the 'master race'. Going around saying this will make people feel inferior and think the Germans have no authority over them, this caused conflicts. Hitler thought that the Treaty of Versailles should be cancelled and land taken from Germany must be returned. This led to problems as they were demanding land, which not only is against the Treaty's wishes, but will make then a lot stronger when or if future wars do happen. He said that all people of German blood, including many in Austria and Czechoslovakia, must be allowed to live in Greater Germany.